agree with the statements about licensing but lost track who said what.
i thought people were buying nick drake records
because his tracks are being used on some gawd awful Young Americans
teen soap I caught on UK tv the other day. Fueled with angst the
songs still captivate a mood. Not so sure how Nick's estate was set
up due to the way he died etc but as i understand it copyright is
life of the author plus 70 years which is how disney still has a
copyright on Mickey Mouse. Everytime it comes up to a Walt Disney
death anniversary and Mickey might come into public domain the
Disney Corp goes into overdrive lobbying Congress & the rest of
the world to extend the life of copyright.... at least that was
one of the trivial things i learned in summer school at harvard.
the original idea behind copyright was to give authors, composers
etc a period of time in which they could do things like license it
to pay for the labours of creating it.
many artists (not all) take a point 2 position.
you dont like volkswagen - dont license your music to them.
i'm sure volkswagen had to get permission from the publisher and the
label to use the track especially if this was an ad in the states
& somewhere along the line a fee was paid -
not to the drake family(altho you'd think they might get a royalty
on airplay) you can be sure a label or a publisher were contacted,
permission sought & granted with an exchange of paper - not only
contracts but a check.
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the music makers are not being bought and sold, what is being bought
and sold is a license to use a work of art in a short film or video
that at the very worst misleads people into thinking they need
something that they do not. since last i checked, nobody needs either
prefuse 73, the internet or even television, i don't think any harm is
being done.
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I think as long as long as an artist feels morally secure in licensing
a work to a corporation, then they have every right to do so.
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Nick Drake's song "Pink Moon" will always be associated
with Volkswagen for an enormous number of people. But the flipside of
that transaction is that a significant percentage of the people who
bought a Nick Drake album within the last year did so because that was
the guy from the Volkswagen commercial. This is possibly not the best
example since Nick Drake is long dead and does not get to benefit from
the licensing of his music
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